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21 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone is appointed the 4th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. March. 5 – The first one-day flight between Cape Town and Pretoria takes place. June. 30 – J.B.M. Hertzog becomes the third Prime Minister of South Africa. Unknown date. The Taung Child is discovered.
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
This is a list of conflicts in Africa arranged by country, both on the continent and associated islands, including wars between African nations, civil wars, and wars involving non-African nations that took place within Africa. It encompasses pre-colonial wars, colonial wars, wars of independence, secessionist and separatist conflicts, major ...
September 28, 1924 (Sunday) [ edit ] The four remaining American aviators in the round-the-world flight expedition completed their journey by landing at Sand Point in Seattle in the airplanes Chicago (with pilot Lowell H. Smith and co-pilot Leslie P. Arnold) and New Orleans (with pilot Erik H. Nelson and co-pilot John Harding Jr), all four of ...
28 September – Pieter-Dirk Uys, performer, author, satirist, and social activist. 5 October – Riaan Cruywagen, news reader and voice artist; 16 October – Kaizer Motaung, footballer, founder & chairman of Kaizer Chiefs F.C. 22 October – Lillian Dube, actress & TV host; 17 December – Belinda Bozzoli, academic and politician (d.2020)
A boundary is agreed between German East Africa and Nyasaland. 1916: Rwanda is occupied by Belgian forces. 1922: 20 July: Rwanda-Urundi are joined as a League of Nations mandate, governed by Belgium. [1] 1933: All citizens in Rwanda-Urundi are issued with an identity card defining their ethnicity. 1943: Famine affects the region. 1945
Other German civilians were allowed to remain. In 1924 all white South-West Africans were automatically naturalised as South African nationals and British subjects thereof; the exception being about 260 who lodged specific objections. In 1926 a Legislative Assembly was created to represent German, Afrikaans, and English-speaking white residents.
The Union of South Africa was tied closely to the British Empire, and automatically joined with Great Britain and the allies against the German Empire.Both Prime Minister Louis Botha and Defence Minister Jan Smuts were former Second Boer War generals who had fought against the British, but then became active and respected members of the Imperial War Cabinet.